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Introduction to Working with Young People
Education & Development

Introduction to Working with Young People

...creativity. A Madcap Graduate Returns Gawaine's "sorted" - he's got a job here passing on his creative and technical knowledge. Education with a Difference Sue Quinn on how the Project offers young people opportunities for personal growth and pride, as well as an informal arts education. Streetwork A small team of youth workers take to the streets to engage informally...
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Video 1 hr 28 mins
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe in. You will also find out about the important place of religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Alternative pathways into higher education
Education & Development

Alternative pathways into higher education

...creativity it offers, to the challenges of learning independently and preparing for formal study. Through their personal stories, we explore how open educational resources and flexible learning opportunities helped them build confidence, develop study skills, and take their first steps into university life. Whether you’re a home-educating parent, a student thinking...
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Audio 5 mins
Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...creativity rather than replacing it – this research, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology...
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Video 4 mins
5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...writing. If the idea of writing sounds interesting to you, why not check out our free courses Start writing fiction or Writing what you know. [Banner of an anonymous mask on a green background. The word 'Authenticity' is embedded on the right.] 5. Authenticity Perhaps a controversial one, as it highly depends on why you drink alcohol, but for many, it is a way to reduce...
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Article 10 mins
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety of ways probably. You will be using course books, which you may be reading, or listening to on tape, course cassettes like this one you will be listening to, watching TV programmes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs